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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Read in context →And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Read in context →44 occurrences in 34 verses.
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shâmêm · shaw-mame'
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Strong's KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:22Strong's last: Zechariah 7:14
Open full H8074 profile →shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Strong's KJV usage: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Strong's first: Exodus 23:29Strong's last: Micah 7:13
Open full H8077 profile →shammâh · sham-maw'
ruin; by implication, consternation
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:9Strong's last: Zechariah 7:14
Open full H8047 profile →ʼâsham · aw-sham'
to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
Strong's KJV usage: × certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, × greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Strong's first: Psalms 34:21Strong's last: Joel 1:18
Open full H816 profile →yâsham · yaw-sham'
to lie waste
Strong's KJV usage: be desolate.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:7
Open full H3456 profile →érēmos · er'-ay-mos
lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied)
Strong's KJV usage: :--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:38Strong's last: Acts 1:20
Open full G2048 profile →chârab · khaw-rab'
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:19
Open full H2717 profile →chorbâh · khor-baw'
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 7:34Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:20
Open full H2723 profile →mᵉshammâh · mesh-am-maw'
a waste or amazement
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate.
Strong's first: Isaiah 15:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 6:14
Open full H4923 profile →erēmóō · er-ay-mo'-o
to lay waste (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
Strong's first: Revelation 17:16Strong's last: Revelation 18:19
Open full G2049 profile →galmûwd · gal-mood'
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, solitary.
Strong's first: Job 15:34Strong's last: Isaiah 49:21
Open full H1565 profile →chârêb · khaw-rabe'
parched or ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, dry, waste.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 33:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 33:12
Open full H2720 profile →shôwʼ · sho
a tempest; by implication, devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Job 38:27
Open full H7722 profile →shâmêm · shaw-mame'
ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 12:11Strong's last: Daniel 9:17
Open full H8076 profile →monóō · mon-o'-o
to isolate, i.e. bereave
Strong's KJV usage: :--be desolate.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 5:5Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:5
Open full G3443 profile →ʼashmân · ash-mawn'
a fat field
Strong's KJV usage: desolate place.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:10Strong's last: Isaiah 59:10
Open full H820 profile →bâdâd · baw-dawd'
separate; adverb, separately
Strong's KJV usage: alone, desolate, only, solitary.
Strong's first: Isaiah 27:10Strong's last: Isaiah 27:10
Open full H910 profile →battâh · bat-taw'
desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate.
Strong's first: Isaiah 7:19Strong's last: Isaiah 7:19
Open full H1327 profile →yâchîyd · yaw-kheed'
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
Strong's KJV usage: darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
Strong's first: Psalms 25:16Strong's last: Psalms 25:16
Open full H3173 profile →yâtsath · yaw-tsath'
to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire (fire), kindle.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:19
Open full H3341 profile →kâchad · kaw-khad'
to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
Strong's first: Job 15:28Strong's last: Job 15:28
Open full H3582 profile →nâqâh · naw-kaw'
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
Strong's KJV usage: acquit × at all, × altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, × by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, × utterly, × wholly.
Strong's first: Isaiah 3:26Strong's last: Isaiah 3:26
Open full H5352 profile →shâʼâh · shaw-aw'
to rush; by implication, to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.
Strong's first: Isaiah 6:11Strong's last: Isaiah 6:11
Open full H7582 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
18 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
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DESOLATE, adjective
1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting either stripped of inhabitants, or never having been inhabitated; as a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant. Jeremiah 9:11.
2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as desolate altars; desolate towers. Ezek. Zeph.
3. Solitary; without a companion; afflicted.
Tamar remained desolate in Absaloms house. 2 Samuel 13:20.
4. Deserted of God; deprived of comfort.
My heart within me is desolate Psalms 143:4.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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